In 2017 the European Investment Bank provided EUR 1.05 billion of new financing for solar energy projects around the world, representing the largest ever annual support by the EIB to the solar sector.

Ahead of the Founding Conference of the International Solar Alliance in New Delhi the European Investment Bank also confirmed strengthened engagement to support significant expansion of solar energy in developing and emerging economies.

“Solar power is providing clean energy for millions of people around the world and solar energy now represents the single largest source of new power generation. The fate of this planet depends on continuing to expand the use of renewable energy to support sustainable economic growth. This can be achieved through improved access to energy alongside scaling up a viable alternative to fossil fuels. The European Investment Bank – the EU bank – welcomes the vision of the International Solar Alliance to ensure those countries most vulnerable to climate change can harness the proven potential of solar power,” said Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank.

India leading focus of EIB backed solar investment outside Europe

India was the leading recipient of EIB financing for solar investment outside the European Union, both in 2017 and overall since 2013. The EIB has approved a total of EUR 640 million of new investment in solar projects in India set to provide clean energy to an estimated 4.2 million households and save more than 4 million tons of carbon emissions.

“The European Union and India are committed to implementing the Paris Climate agreement and working together to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, including ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. As the European Union’s bank, the EIB has a strong track record of supporting transformational investment in India and working with Indian partners to enhance solar investment across this country to benefit millions of Indian households.” said H.E. Mr. Tomasz Kozlowski, Ambassador of the European Union.

President Werner Hoyer will lead a high-level European Investment Bank Delegation to attend the International Solar Alliance summit, taking place in New Delhi this week. During the visit the EIB will confirm significant new support for EUR 500 million of new renewable energy investment across India in partnership with the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA).

The European Investment Bank is committed to increasing support for climate related investment, including renewable energy, in developing and emerging economies to represent 35% of overall financing activity.

“More than a trillion dollars of new solar investment will be required by 2030 to deploy affordable solar energy. The European Investment Bank has a unique technical and financing experience of supporting solar projects around the world, enabling new research to further reduce deployment costs and mobilising renewable energy investment. The International Solar Alliance looks forward to welcoming President Hoyer and his colleagues to New Delhi to discuss strengthened cooperation in the years ahead.” said H.E. Upendra Tripathy, Interim Director General of the International Solar Alliance.

During the International Solar Alliance summit the EIB will outline the key role of solar energy investment across a range of technologies to reduce carbon emissions and increase access to clean energy.

Global support for solar investment to address local energy priorities

New EIB financing for solar investment in 2017 included backing for new projects in India, Mexico and Peru, as well as 13 European Union countries.

Since 2002 the EIB has financed more than EUR 6.35 billion of new solar energy investment and 50% of solar investment financed by the EIB in the last 7 years is located in developing and emerging economies. Reflecting the global solar engagement in recent years the EIB has financed photovoltaic and concentrated solar power projects across Africa in Morocco, South Africa and Burkina Faso, in Latin America in Nicaragua and Peru, in Asia in India and Vietnam as well as Turkey and Israel.

This has enabled significant expansion of access to energy using clean power production and contributed to improved economic activity and social benefits. In the coming weeks the EIB is expected to confirm significant financing for off-grid solar projects across Africa.

Background information:

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the long-term lending institution of the European Union owned by its Member States. It makes long-term finance available for sound investment in order to contribute towards EU policy goals.

The sudden chill in Kolkata over the last few days have been a delight, but, of course, have not over compensated for the warm summer months, and, to renew the spirit of art and poetry, the book fair and literary fests have kept our heels busy in the month of January. If this wasn’t enough to seek strength in our soul, the city is proud to host a selection of contemporary Vietnamese art consisting of 6 painters from Vietnam who have been invited by Alliance Francise du Bengale, the Bodhi Tree Monastery Art and Sampark Publishing House, and by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations to exhibit in Kolkata at the Palladian Lounge, Bengal Chamber of Commerce. The artworks will be showcased also in Delhi next week.

Stephane Amalir, Director, Alliance francise du Bengale, Kolkata, who has been instrumental in bringing Vietnamese painting to India, recalls “My first overseas posting was in Vietnam, and it was, therefore, there as a young man that I had the money to spend on paintings. The first painting I ever bought, a seascape, was by a Vietnamese artist. It travelled back to France with me, then on to my next posting in South Africa, and it now hangs in my sitting room in Kolkata. I have, therefore, in my own way, already brought Vietnamese art to India”.

Nguyen Quy Kien with his artwork at the Palladian Lounge

While I was going through the artworks on display at the lounge, I observed few paintings which had the impressionist style reminiscent of Claude Monet, whom I greatly admire. After speaking with the artist Nguyen Quy Kien, I came to understand that he divides his time living between Paris and Hanoi, and, therefore, able to bring European observational skill of using memory that stores information and using them to create new sensational imprints on natural landscape in Vietnam. In such a cohesive union the colours of sky in Paris and that of Hanoi become enmeshed with each other in the naturalist setting of a wood-bridge and stream flowing underneath it. This overlapping of space and time creates dynamic topology in painting which is distinctly clear from the exhibited artworks. This is, of course, a paradigm shift in the paintings of these new artists making me reminisce the lines of a famous Vietnamese poet Tinh Trai who writes: I still remember Rimbaud and Verlaine,/The two besotted men of poetry/Drunk with exotic verse and with passion,/Defying worn paths and old ways…/Nothing matters, future or past,/Who wears makeup and colored dress./Who cares about heaven or hell?/They are simply in love; that’s swell.” This swelling love is between the artist and his vision (his art), here the subject is the object and vice versa, they are united in art, in the demonstration of skill, like a dynamic movement (or flow) which defines the complexity of processes involved including art history, time and space non-locally.

Nude Series by Pham Huy Hung

While attending to other works of art notably the nude series by Pham Huy Hung, the texture of the figurines overpower physical shapes of hands and legs creating a visual sculpture in 2-d which is geometrically distinct yet inchoate at the subliminal level. His artistry lies in creating textures that almost blur the sensation between the physical and the non-physical aspect of the nudes in study.

Art by Nguyen Khac Chinh

Nguyen Khac Chinh’s works are beautifully rendered in different hues of red that bring the folklore or fairytale like characters in a modern context doing office work or just plain gossiping and speaking over the phone. This is very playfully done to habitually express our evolving unconscious and how that can be traced to an archetypal folklore pattern that we still carry beneath our multi-personal self, the colours connote to our existential reality where lies our frailty and also our hope. Artworks by Nguyen Duc Hung are very intricate with detail sketches of cosmic energy fields in the subtle bodies, lotus of the spirit and other minute symbols. It also shows the mechanical stress on the brain from the environment and also the artistic process inherent for de-stress and cleansing of the morphological fields connected with bodily organs.

‘Fragrant Lotus of Spirit’ by Nguyen Duc Hung

Nguyen Xuan Lan’s art titled ‘Soul’ and ‘Kindness’ are exemplars of very eclectic post-modern expressionist art showing different states of man’s inner transformation. The only female painter in this group, Tao Thi Thu Huong’s works including her ‘Sunset’ and ‘Boat’ are very moving and inspirational –the plasticity in the colours show a high-level emotional language in art that speaks of the unspeakable, the Tao through the movement of the brushes across the canvas. The painting ‘Sunset’, of course, has an air of melancholy about it -that which is passing is happening, here and now, we can’t grasp at it but can only experience the beauty of every single moment through our mindfulness. Her non-judgemental way of capturing nature in its ‘suchness’ and the clarity of her perception is indeed a remarkable artistic achievement.

Having seen the artworks displayed by this group of six talented Vietnamese painters, I will be delving more into the dynamic evolution process in art as consciousness that is non-local and non-reductionist.

To thank and acknowledge everyone for this exhibition, I must mention Sunandan Roy Choudhury, Publisher, SAMPARK and Director, Sampark Literary Evenings and Madhubanti Roy Choudhury, Writer and Consultant, both of them have been the chief coordinators in making this event happen. Also much thanks to Bodhi Tree Monastery of Art for arranging this event very meticulously.

Devotion to the Lord by the universal act of love’s proclamation brings joy to the creation (Simultaneous upward and downward causation)

To make that happen the language of the heart (Bhakti-Giti-Mala) must embrace the twilight radiance of the play/lila that takes place,

And that which unfolds manifold realities in Radha Sri Sarira (the rahasya/secret)

Esoteric numbers of the superconscious realms are engendered from Her as the Lord understands the prometrics of Rasa-Lila

Together with Her in His dance with the Gopis

The Gopis are ecstatic functions of supraphysical reality in timeless communion with Radha-Krishna coherent Glauber States for

Further quantum manifestations

Without Dance there is no creation

No integration in leaf and the bole

No Rig-pa, no Bon

Differential quotients within infinite fragments must become the shapeless commodity in farther constellations to become

Fire in the ice of a seer-will force (Sri Aurobindo’s Light From Acrux) that predominates (Mahakala Action: Mother’s Agenda)

All hyperspace conjugations of the metamorphic mind

Mind forever the same, changeless

Yet transforming to reach the highest state of enlightenment through Dzogchen practice

Silence at the heart of the lotus fathers the land of christ’s paradise

The Padmasambhava and his beloved in the purple sun as the blue light of Krishna embracing Radha in the Quantum Absolute Mass Entanglement with dense electrolytic Xinom Supermind Waking State of natural condition

The Last Supper: da Vinci

The Rasa-Lila takes place in the Last Supper of Christ with Mary Magdalene and His Disciples

The Feast is also the showering of Divine Love that creates art poetry sculpture literature and science

Love is the only fundamental subjective experience shared by great poets like Rabindranath Tagore, Wordsworth, Shelley, Milton, Browning, Shakespeare. It’s the same love for music/art that brought the symphony from Beethoven’s heart, the lyrics from Jim Morrison, the paintings from Raphael, Monet, van Gogh or Degas or the sculpture from Michelangelo.

Love is in multiplcation, the factor sum is the consort of every deity of love in art/music/sculpture/literature/science as revealed to the artist in his union with the Lord.

"it is an ever-fixed mark

Padmasambhava and Consort: The Nyingma Old Primordial Energy State and the Zahum-Ushi Mandala of Perfect Poise in Love

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
- Sonnet 116, Shakespeare
"The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?" - Loves's Philosophy, P.B. Shelley
What if we still ride on, we two
With life for ever old yet new,
Changed not in kind but in degree,
The instant met eternity--
And heaven just proved that I and She
Ride, ride together, forever ride?
- The Last Ride Together, Robert Browning
"It is he, the innermost one, who wakens up
my consciousness with his deep hidden touches.
It is he who reads magic incantations upon my eyes,
and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart
in varied cadence of pleasure and pain".
- Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore
- Joy Roy Choudhury

Our journey is towards the yellow river in Nibiru, the young boy saw in dream when the artificial-sun is about to take birth in Rome; letters are mere Alblackica time-ships in space zero upon the Praviculin-wavicle dance to bring us back into nature through the gyres of consciousness; Kali is Kali in the Wahali of Kali to paint the vision of the sun that lights the dark side of the earth 2088 AD onwards; there is still time to drink your coffee and read Macbeth or think about the new quantum dynamics far ahead of conventional science and reality, gather the potential for the new race and the truth in the proteins of your system as the temple of time is the place to worship where the womb is a tetra-orthogonal centre of the haploid chromosomes shining like rubies in the Altamira of the ancient tribe; beauty lasts forever in the eyes of the dance, its naked electrodes are revisiting the stars to bring energy in the carbon networks of life, the polyglossia is the fibre that has all the words upside down into the wormhole and from there as conscious flow of energy into rapidly evolving systems of differentiation; the tree sees the river thinking of the roads, and, the nights are Petrarchan sonnets dipped in albumin so the egg white and the yolk can see each other and touch, feeling as they do, to enrapt the pain with the morning-intelligence of the light, that light that falls on Claude Monet’s Le Havre is real, it’s an incarnation of the rainbow-sound in the mandala of primeval space; ‘the white feet of sound’ is actually a light of the new race by 2268 AD and then as the violets are ivy in the strange eye of the alchemists, time-travel may be the rope-trick possible in the quantum almanacs of the near future;

Riding the horse the savage told the man of knowledge how many stars he has to cross by the book of wisdom and he said that Isis knows this as ‘she was there in the meadow when the creeks used to rise/ blinded by sleep and in need of a bed’; all are hidden in shapes and sizes speaking, interacting with each other by their retrospect shadows in the glory of the circles; rivers are moon’s pyramids reflected on them α mirror seeing α mirror in the β –β transitional space to write the equation of the cosmic parable in the non-ionic metaphor of the integral man; synthesis is synthesis of consciousness as apple eats the apple to see the rainbow on the snow melt the ice to grow trees and more apples in the crow-beak-fall-length of the creation as froyeth-mental is dexav-euro-quartz (6N8-9K9-6G6) on Tat Wat Yat/Yat Wat Tat/ Wat Tat Yat cycles…

– Joy Roy Choudhury

Ref: Picture II Kalighat, Kali & ‘She was there in the meadow when the creeks used to rise/ blinded by sleep and in need of a bed’- lines from Bob Dylan song ‘Isis’.

Time is the Wind of the River of No-Time. Apples are red when the darkness dissolves the eye of the Sun. The father is the herdsmen of the tribe of the origin, his power is Alblackica is zero and one. He sees the river cross the ferries within the intervals of time and eternity, the winged-horse of freedom is the swan of the Bazuta Eternal.

Sage-Age-Reason is the proverb of the ultimate time, Hari Om Tat Sat (3x)

Man-eternal eats the fruit of wisdom’s horse and the river knows the way, the river knows the way…Ivory shadows are the moon’s pilgrims offering their mind to the Lord of the prayers. Thou cast your light on the river’s flaming arabesques, return them to the sea, to them you owe the beautiful unmanifest, the silent word of offering and love that pass without passing

huang truang mrinumva tavath (3x)

No man is free till he learns to fly, his despair should give rise to evangelical wings that must soar heavenwards into the bodhi-chitta of the primal embodiment, into the habber-brahman of the zeugma.

Tithonus crying like a black veil that masks the mystic octet of the adi param-brahman.

Changes reconstitute the New Order, the living daylights are the purple candles of the burning rose, the blind is the vision of the unblinded darkness, the dead are not dead – a life beyond the stars have culminated in the divine design of the earthly paradise symbolized by man.

He is the war-elephant of the dead horse-king! He is the power and the source of all divinity that do exist or will exist. His alms are the worshipped petals of the fragrant heart of the Mother, to her he prays so she will descend to make good and beautiful all that we know or need to know that do exist since the birth of this creation.

Eos dawns her lover with the peach blossoms of spring, the caesura is the fountain of life; appellations are the white harmony of the ambrosiac fruit that time devours, honor her as immortality waits in the seeds sown in the twilight hours of Alblackica.